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Job Summary
The Shift Leader leads the daily activities of work teams ensuring standards are met with respect to safety, quality, material requirements and production schedules. This is a hands-on role which means that they will work along-side the employees which they are leading. This is a position of leadership, as such the company expects employees at this level to lead by example, and not only abide by, but also to enforce its rules of conduct.
Hours: 4:30pm - 1:00am
Key Responsibilities / Functions:
Shop Floor Leadership
- Enforce Health and Safety requirements.
- Ensure employees are following policy and expectations are being met.
- Lead shift production operations, including monitoring and adjusting workflow to maximize efficiency and quality.
- Monitor and assist in the training of new personnel and provide performance feedback and coaching as needed.
- Mentor and coach the floor operators and material handlers in becoming effective and self-motivated employees who help reach oranizational goals and schedules.
- Ensure all employee paperwork is addressed, time approved and employee time off scheduled.
- Lead through example a culture of continuous improvement, problem solving and waste elimination.
Shop Floor Coordination
- Communication
- Liaise between production staff and material handlers to ensure quality communication.
- With the Operations Leader, ensure key decisions are communicated and implemented throughout the shift.
- Ensure Shift to Shift communication is robust and clear so there is seamless disruption between shifts.
- 5s
- Ensure a safe workspace for all the employees on the shop floor.
- Everything has a place and everything is in it’s place
- Conduct weekly 5s audits
- Preventative Maintenance
- Oversee preventative maintenance program.
- Troubleshoot and address day to day maintenance issues.
- Ensure Lockout / Tagout procedure are in place.
- Inventory Accuracy
- Communicate any inventory issues or potential issues with PCS.
- Conduct daily cycle counts within the plant.
- Ensure material is located in its home position.
- Purchase orders are received withing 24 hours.
- Ensure all work order and sales order paperwork is handed in daily.
- Standard Work
- Ensure QC processes are created and followed.
- Respond to and address customer complaints as they arrive Drive resolution to ensure issues don’t reoccur.
- Ensure each employee is trained sufficiently and drive Quality at the Source.
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